My sister Margie came out for a couple of days of stamping play time :-) I borrowed Margie's TCW butterfly stencil and made this CAS Watercolour card using my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers.

I placed the stencil at an angle with part of the right wing off the paper and taped the stencil down with my 3M masking tape. Love that tape...it is 2" wide, never tears your paper and can be reused over and over. Then came the fun marker coloring with my Zigs.

I punched some hearts out of scrap CS and used as a stencil then colored the hearts with the same colors as the butterfly and punched out with my SU heart punch.

Stamped my SU Field Flowers (ret) sentiment with Archival Black ink and added my hearts with mini glue dots. Then I went over my butterfly and hearts with my Wink of Stella marker for a bit of bling. A very CAS pretty design for my 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" square card.

Enjoy and do drop by to see all the new beautiful CAS Watercolour Reminder Cards by our very talented DT and GD. You still have until February 24th to play. Happy Valentine's Day to you all...Hugs!

I set aside my cup and took a piece of heavy kraft paper and put it through my crimper. I then cut my piece to size for the cup and used my Tim Holtz Distress Crayons: Antique Linen and Vintage Photo to color the corrugation and blended the colors with my finger and spritzed lightly with water. That really brought out the ridges. I wrapped the corrugated sleeve around the cup and attached with scotch tape. That was a fun project creating my main image.

Next I used a new TCW Mini Raven Mosaic Stencil to add Golden's Embossing Paste for texture to the background of the SU Confetti Cream CS (ret). Stamped my sentiment using PB "Heartfelt Thanks" stamp set with T.H. Vintage Photo using my MISTI.

Next I added a thin frame using SU Early Espresso CS and attached my card front to my Confetti Cream card base using foam tape. That was it!

Sunday, February 12, 2017

I have had so much fun playing with my new CUTplorations Luggage Tag Dies. Shery's Tagplorations Linky Party was the perfect opportunity to play with my new Dies! There are new tag samples each of the 7 days by Shery's very talented DT and lots of prizes available :-) The party ends on February 14th. Hope you get to play too.

Here is my tag for Day 5

I went crazy with stencils on my tag. I used 3 ARTploration stencils, 1 Tim Holtz and 1 TCW stencil.

I die cut my largest Luggage Tag from a manila T. H. tag and started by covering with a layer of Gesso, let dry and sponged Distress Inks to cover white Gesso. Then the fun began with the stencils.

I started with the TCW stencil, then the T.H. stencil, then my 3 Artplorations stencils. Sponging with sponge daubers and Distress Inks.

Next, using my palette knife, I went over my stenciled hearts and bird with Golden's Molding Paste. The paste absorbed the DI inks from the images as it dried. To make the images pop more I traced with a permanent black pen.

I traced around the edge of the tag with a shimmer gold ink pen and my black marker to frame the tag. Added my ribbon, rhinestones, CUTplorations Smile and done. There was a lot of drying time, but a really fun project.

Next I die cut my CUTplorations "Hugs Word" using SU Basic Black CS and attached to my tag using my SU fine tip glue pen. Next I used my MISTI to stamp my STAMPlorations "Be Thankful" sentiment using Archival black ink. I stamped 3 times for good coverage..

I then added SU Calypso Coral Seam Binding to my tag and Wink of Stella to the center of each flower for a bit of bling. Attached my tag to SU WW Thick card front using 3M foam tape and Done! So quick and easy, since I had my main image already colored.

I love the bright colors and CAS design. Hope you can join in the fun at the Tagplorations Linky Party. Lots of prizes for just commenting too. Thanks again Shery for keeping us inspired by your DT samples and challenges :-) Hugs..

Friday, February 10, 2017

Alcohol Inks and Zig Markers Hugs.....for my 85 year old friend who is legally blind, so I like to give her cards that she can enjoy touching :-) Pat Loved her card, which made us both happy!

The other day I played around with my Alcohol Inks using the scrunched Plastic Wrap technique. I used Karen (Snippets) technique. Be sure and click on her Snippets blog link to see the Gorgeous heart she made using much different colors.

I just added drops of Alcohol inks: Tim Holtz Flamingo, Watermelon and Pink Sherbet to my Yupo paper, spritzed with blending solution and covered with Glad Wrap. Then scrunched up the Glad Wrap and let sit over night to dry. Then die cut the smaller heart. For the larger heart I used a background with the same AI's but added more blending solution, which really lightened up the background and then added the Glad Wrap, but did not scrunch it up. This gave a pretty and more subtle texture to the background. I then die cut the larger heart.

I die cut the card front, popped up with foam tape and inlaid the hearts.

Next..I used my Zig watercolor markers to make stripes across a scrap piece of Whisper White CS using colors close to my AI colors and I then die cut the hugs and punched out the heart from the piece.

I added my hugs using my fine tip glue pen, added my heart with a dimensional and a rhinestone to the hearts for the final touch. This was a fun and easy Valentine.

Then I used the same acrylic paint on a piece of scrap SU Whisper White thick CS and die cut my heart and love with my SU "Sunshine Wishes" Dies. Attached to tag using SU Fine Tip Glue Pen. Weighting down the die images with my acrylic block.

I added my SU ribbons for the final touch. I also die cut another tag with SU WW thick CS and attached to the back for a nice clean look and a sturdier bookmark.

Hope you check out Shery's newest STAMPlorations Blog Hop. So many awesome tags each day by her amazingly talented DT members. Lots of her usual prizes too! Happy Tag making. Hugs...

Sunday, February 5, 2017

You have until midnight PST tonight to play in Darnell's NBUS #10 Challenge. That will be the end of her 3 week NBUS Birthaversary Celebration :-) What a HUGE success Darnell. You chose such fun techniques to try plus encouraging us to use our Never Before Uses Schtuff!!!

Here is my 3rd card using the alcohol ink bubble wrap technique.

Here is the link to my 1st card using this alcohol ink bubble wrap technique and also a photo of the 3 extra backgrounds I made. One of those backgrounds I used for this new card. Here is the link to my 2nd card using one of my extra backgrounds. All my cards turned out so different and were so easy and fun because I already had my backgrounds.I did my technique a little different than Darnell's. I dropped my Alcohol Inks onto the inside of a padded envelope, which has smaller bubbles than your normal bubble wrap packing material. I then spritzed my inks with blending solution and laid my Yupo paper over the ink with a piece of paper towel over the Yupo and pressed down with my hands to get a good impression.

I mounted my cut panels onto Whisper White thick CS. I then added adhesive tape to the back and added metallic silver thread flipped over and attached to my card front. I die cut my Tim Holtz "Wildflower" using Coaster Board and Whisper White thick CS and glued together for extra dimension. I used Fine Tip Glue Pen to attach my die to my panels using an acrylic block to weight down the die for a secure attachment.

My final step was stamping my Penny Black "Heartfelt Thanks" sentiment (my 1st time to use this sentiment) using Archival jet black ink. I then popped up my card front with foam tape and done :-)

I sure have gotten a lot of mileage from one session of alcohol ink bubble wrap creating. I really have enjoyed making all 3 of my cards and have loved how differently they turned out. Thank you again Darnell for a fabulously creative 3 week challenge Birthaversary Celebration ;-)

You still have until Midnight PST to play in Darnell's NBUS #10 Challenge. Be sure and click on the link for All the Deets. I am playing with my Alcohol Ink Bubble Wrap backgrounds and Never Before Used Schtuff!

Here is my card using my brand new (yesterday) CUTplorations "Luggage Tags Nesting Dies". I love all 3 sizes of the tags. I used the middle and smallest dies for my card. The largest tag in the set is the same size as the Artplorations Luggage Tag Stencil, which I have several. So fun getting new toys.

Here is the link to my 1st card using this alcohol ink bubble wrap technique and also a photo of the 3 extra backgrounds I made. One of those backgrounds I used for this new card. Already having the backgrounds and my new tag dies made this card so quick and easy. Putting the sequins on took as long as the rest of the card..lol!

I did my technique a little different than Darnell's. I dropped my Alcohol Inks onto the inside of a padded envelope, which has smaller bubbles than your normal bubble wrap packing material. I then spritzed my inks with blending solution and laid my Yupo paper over the ink with a piece of paper towel over the Yupo and pressed down with my hands to get a good impression.

I stamped my Fond Expressions sentiment using my MISTI and Archival jet black ink. I then heat set to make sure it did not smear. Do not use too much heat because you can warp Yupo paper.

I added a SU Pool Party ribbon and white baker's twine. I used SU Fine Tip Glue Pen to attach my sequins and weighted them down with an acrylic block. I also die cut another small tag out of SU Coaster Board (ret) and attached to Yupo top tag for more dimension and glued to the larger tag,
which was attached with foam tape.My card is for several challenges besides NBUS #10.

Saturday, February 4, 2017

I am playing again in Darnell's NBUS Challenge 3 week blog Birthaversary. I am playing this time in NBUS #10 with a never before used stamp set and a cool Bubble Wrap Technique. This is Darnell's 3rd and last week for us to play in her really fun challenges and with a chance to win prizes:-) Darnell..I already own prizes 3, 4 and 5.

I did my technique a little different than Darnell's. I dropped my Alcohol Inks onto the inside of a Padded Envelope, which has smaller bubbles than your normal bubble wrap packing material. I then spritzed my inks with Blending Solution and laid my Yupo Paper over the ink with a piece of paper towel over the Yupo Paper and pressed down with my hands. This was my 1st pull using that technique. I got 3 more pulls with each being lighter than the 1st, that I will use for future cards.

Here is a photo of 3 more backgrounds.....

On my finished card I used my MISTI to stamp my Penny Black brush and bird images using Archival jet black ink over my bubble wrap background. Even with Archival ink you have to be very careful not to smear the ink, which I did..whoops! Time for a bit of surgery. I discovered my SU Baja Breeze CS was a perfect match for the T.H. "Steam" alcohol ink, so I made an angled corner cut and now have a bit of the CS showing, which I like.

I then die cut my CUTplorations "Birthday Word" using the Baja Breeze CS and stamped my SU "Sunshine Sayings" sentiment on scraps of Yupo and attached all with SU Fine Tip Glue pen weighting down with a large acrylic block for a few minutes. I attached my card front to my card base and was done. I really like this card much better IRL. It is shiny and real artsy looking! The bubble wrap circles add a really nice texture.

Thank you again Darnell for all your fun challenges and encouraging us to try new techniques and of course use Never Before Used Schtuff!

Here is a close up showing all the pretty shimmer from the Pinata Rich Gold metallic Alcohol Ink.

These are not your normal Valentine's Day colors, but I could not resist using this beautiful Alcohol Ink background I made using the Smooshed on foil technique. Here is Loll's video on Alcohol Inks with Yupo Paper. I followed Loll's steps exactly.

I especially loved the pretty gold shimmer from the Pinata gold metallic AI.

I added a thin black CS trim on the panel and die cut heart. Before attaching to my card front I splattered diluted Inka Gold..Gold paint, which added a watercolour texture. Then I stamped my PB sentiment using my MISTI and Archival Black ink.

I am so happy with the results. I know Denny will love the results, since he loves my AI backgrounds and non-traditional holiday colors.

Be sure and check out all the gorgeous samples from the CAS Watercolour Design Team and our awesome Guest Designer Michelle (Handmade by Michelle). Enjoy and wishing you all a month celebrating with your loved ones! Hugs....

I was so happy to have my design turn out like what I had in my head! Before I cut my SU designer paper, I crimped with my crimper to break up the fibers. I then added liquid glue in the corrugated groves and covered my corrugated cardboard with my designer paper tucking the overlapping sides around the cardboard and gluing with the liquid glue. I trimmed both ends to get just the right size vase.

Next I used my Penny Black dies to cut my flower using the same designer paper and the stem with cardstock. I also die cut both with coaster board to give them extra dimension..worked great.

Next I die cut my card front with my CUTplorations Die and placed the card front inside my MISTI so as to position my sentiment. But before stamping, I decided my card front needed more mixed media so I used diluted acrylic paint and a paint brush to add a few splatters.

Then I placed my sentiment in my MISTI and stamped with Archival black ink. Next I attached my flower, stem, vase and sequins on my card and attached with liquid glue.

I was so pleased with the results. Hope you like my card too and will play with us this month on our CAS Mix Up February Challenge. You have until February 24th to join in the fun.

Be sure and visit the Challenge blog to see all the fabulous samples from the DT and our Guest this month...Julie (Crafted by Jules). You will be inspired my friends. Happy Stamping..Hugs...